17 Best nonfiction books like Braving North Korea: True Stories of Those Secretly Bringing Hope to One of the Darkest Nations On Earth by Scott Croft

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Braving North Korea: True Stories of Those Secretly Bringing Hope to One of the Darkest Nations On Earth

By: Scott Croft

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruled by a maniacal dictator and cut off from the outside world, the citizens of North Korea are li…

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1. Shattered Dreams: My Life as a Polygamist's Wife

By: Irene Spencer

4.33

Format: None pages,

IRENE SPENCER grew up in a fundamentalist Mormon family- the thirteenth of thirty-one children- so … read more

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2. The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

By: David John , Hyeonseo Lee

4.42

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorshi… read more

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"He’d valued his dignity more than his own life."

-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

"I was already hiding beneath so many lies that I hardly knew who I was any more. I was becoming a non-person."

-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

"This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family."

-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

"I hope you remember that if you encounter an obstacle on the road, don’t think of it as an obstacle at all… think of it as a challenge to find a new path on the road less traveled."

-David John, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story

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3. Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite

By: Suki Kim

3.63

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

A haunting memoir of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six… read more

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4. Every Falling Star: The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea

By: Sungju Lee , Susan Elizabeth McClelland

4.07

Format: 242 pages, Hardcover

Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the … read more

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5. The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia

By: Andrei Lankov

2.78

Format: 252 pages, Hardcover

Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he … read more

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6. The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

By: Kang Chol-Hwan , Pierre Rigoulot

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

As tensions between the US and North North Korea continue to escalate, stories of life inside our l… read more

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7. Saving My Assassin

By: Virginia Prodan

3.33

Format: 161 pages, Hardcover

"I should be dead. Buried in an unmarked grave in Romania. Obviously, I am not. God had other plans… read more

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8. In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

By: Yeonmi Park , Maryanne Vollers

3.98

Format: 212 pages,

Human rights activist Park, who fled North Korea with her mother in 2007 at age 13 and eventually m… read more

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9. Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

By: Yong Kim , None

4.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp--a singularly despairing form of tort… read more

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10. Under the Same Sky: A Memoir of Survival, Hope, and Faith

By: Stephan Talty , Joseph Kim

3.54

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A searing story of starvation and survival in North Korea, followed by a dramatic escape, rescue by… read more

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11. A Thousand Miles to Freedom: My Escape from North Korea

By: Eunsun Kim , Sébastien Falletti , David Tian

3.71

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Eunsun Kim was born in North Korea, one of the most secretive and oppressive countries in the moder… read more

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12. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

By: Blaine Harden

5.00

Format: 30 pages, Hardcover

A New York Timesbestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean poli… read more

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13. While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America

By: Yeonmi Park

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The North Korean defector, human rights advocate, and bestselling author of … read more

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14. The Forgotten Bookshop in Paris

By: Daisy Wood

4.34

Format: 367 pages, Paperback

From an exciting new voice in WWII historical fiction—and the author of The Clockmaker’s Wife—comes… read more

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15. The Redhead of Auschwitz: A True Story

By: Nechama Birnbaum

4.56

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Rosie was always told her red hair was a curse, but she never believed it. She often dreamed what i… read more

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Cover of Defying Jihad: The Dramatic True Story of a Woman Who Volunteered to Kill Infidels—and Then Faced Death for Becoming One by Esther Ahmad

16. Defying Jihad: The Dramatic True Story of a Woman Who Volunteered to Kill Infidels—and Then Faced Death for Becoming One

By: Esther Ahmad

4.61

Format: 293 pages, Kindle Edition

If you truly love Allah, you will die for him.Your death will mean much reward for you and your fam… read more

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17. A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

By: Masaji Ishikawa

4.28

Format: 174 pages, Kindle Edition

The harrowing true story of one man’s life in—and subsequent escape from—North Korea, one of the wo… read more

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"I want to give this food to my family in North Korea. But I can’t. So I entrust it to the seagulls. And in my heart, they carry it off to my family. And I weep."

-Masaji Ishikawa, A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea

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18. The Boy From Block 66: A WW2 Jewish Holocaust Survival True Story (Heroic Children of World War II Book 1)

By: Limor Regev

4.46

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

He has endured more than any child ever should, but now he must survive Block 66. January, 1945 . … read more

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19. Braving North Korea: True Stories of Those Secretly Bringing Hope to One of the Darkest Nations On Earth

By: Scott Croft

3.95

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Ruled by a maniacal dictator and cut off from the outside world, the citizens of North Korea are li… read more

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20. ASAP

By: Axie Oh

3.92

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Axie Oh's ASAP is the much anticipated companion novel to beloved… read more

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"I didn't want to chase you," he says, and I wince. Did he finally realize I'm not worth chasing? "I wanted to run with you."

-Axie Oh, ASAP

"Do you mean it?" he asks softly. His fingers around my wrist tighten infinitesimally. "I mean it," I say. "With my heart, with my body, with my soul."

-Axie Oh, ASAP

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21. Hidden in Berlin: A Holocaust Memoir

By: Evelyn Joseph Grossman

4.34

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Lilo and Ernst survived the horrors of WW2 in the center of Berlin, but not without help. An incred… read more

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22. Breaking Midnight: A True Story

By: Lynn Walker

4.41

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

John Walker was a Miami undercover narcotics agent in the 1970s. Ten years later, he was in prison … read more

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Cover of Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans by Peter Schweizer

23. Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans

By: Peter Schweizer

4.41

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

AN INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER It’s often said that China is in a cold war with America. … read more

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24. The Undercover Secretary

By: Ellie Midwood

4.21

Format: 254 pages, Kindle Edition

France, 1942. “I forced myself to hold his gaze. My heart thrashed inside my chest like a bird batt… read more

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25. The Journey Into The Abyss: My North Korean Nightmare

By: Hervey Copeland

3.53

Format: 33 pages, Kindle Edition

This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B073D7V5K5 One stupid mistake turns a journey of a … read more

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26. The Bulletproof Missionary: Shang Ik Moon's journey from North Korea to America (The Missionaries to America Book 3)

By: Keriz Rosado

4.71

Format: 218 pages, Kindle Edition

This is a story of war and redemption, of hunger and destruction, the kindness of an Army Chaplain … read more

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27. Greenlight to Freedom: A North Korean Daughter's Search for Her Mother and Herself

By: Songmi Han

4.63

Format: 269 pages, Kindle Edition

Like much of the North Korean population, Songmi Han was living in desperate poverty. As a young ch… read more

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28. Daily Life in North Korea

By: Andrei Lankov

3.65

Format: 65 pages, Kindle Edition

From the surprisingly placid criminal gangs of Pyongyang, to the rules of decorum that apply to wom… read more

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29. Defector: Escaping out of North Korea

By: Shivi Royal

3.15

Format: 92 pages, Kindle Edition

Defector is about the journey of a young orphan girl Yebin, who must defect out of North Korea due … read more

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Cover of I Escaped North Korea!: A North Korea Survival Story by Ellie Crowe

30. I Escaped North Korea!: A North Korea Survival Story

By: Ellie Crowe

4.42

Format: 112 pages, Kindle Edition

Imagine if you were told where to live and work, that your country's leader was an all-powerful god… read more

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31. American in North Korea: Insights from a Day in Pyongyang

By: Justin Hughes

4.14

Format: 102 pages, Kindle Edition

Justin, a young American traveler, ventures to North Korea amid high tensions between the US and th… read more

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